Quotes from a liar

"If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never speak to you again," Trump told the attendees at the rally. "You'll never see me again." - Donald Trump, Sept. 20, 2020, North Carolina

“Trump just vowed to push for term limits for members of Congress and a lifetime ban on lobbying for former lawmakers, both of which were promises from his 2016 race — and both of which his White House never sought to adopt in any of the four years he was president.” - NYT

Daughter is out. She's not going to participate in this campaign, like the last 2. I saw a sign once in front of a guy's house in Florida which said, "Ivanka 2024". Guess that's not happening.

The whole point isn't to do things, though, people will vote for "lower taxes" even if they are not literally lower, and against the progressive imagination of helping people. I bet it's a much harder sell after he's been even more exposed as traitorous to national security.

“I want to remind you that Donald Trump once got a hurricane's pathing wrong and so he drew it on a map with a sharpie and presented it to the American people as fact. He is not a man who has ever permitted "what is possible" or "what is reasonable" to stop him from saying whatever the fuck nonsense comes to mind.” Reddit

The image for me is people heading to the exit once he starts talking and the exits are locked. Trapped. (Source) The man is literally saying nothing.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

movie versus book

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Introduction

Robert B. Palmer's introduction to his translation of Walter F. Otto's Dionysus: Myth and Cult (p. ix-xi) Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Dead Pan W H E N Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu {Mor. 419 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking): As for death among such beings [i.e., deities], I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. The father of...

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